"Docs4PatientCare.org is a politically neutral grassroots coalition of physicians. Use of any politically partisan terms does not reflect the position of Docs4PatientCare.org. We do encourage our speakers to express how they feel and we post articles based on their informative content only. Any politically partisan language used does not reflect the group as a whole. Specific party or political allegiances and opposition are not our intent. The goal of D4PC is only to advocate for effective and responsible health care reform."
Almost everyone involved in health care will tell you that the greatest problem in our system is that we pay on a "fee-for-service" basis. Almost everyone is wrong. Fee for service is not the problem, but FFS in a third party payor system. Only in health care is there someone else picking up the tab for our spending.
If we applied the same third-party payment technique to any other segment of the economy we would get the exact same inflationary spiral we see in health care.
This week marks the two your anniversary of the passage of the PPACA (OBAMACARE). The White House recently held a meeting with more than 100 left-wing organizations who support the government takeover of American healthcare. As this memo leaked from the meeting shows, the progressive left is engaged in another tax-payer funded public relations blitz in order to persuade the American people to embrace ObamaCare.
The information below will dispute their claims how ObamaCare helps women. The Left states that ObamaCare: prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage to women due to preexisting conditions, gives women preventative care such as mammograms and birth control at no out-of-pocket cost, and will prohibit insurers from charging women higher premiums than they charge men. Let's examine these claims individually:
1